The Centre for World Christianity is pleased to announce a public lecture by Dr. Derek Peterson. The lecture will be at the AIU academic block Monday August 28th, 2017 at 4:00pm. Dr Peterson is author of "Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935–1972" which won the Martin A. Klein Prize for African History in 2013 and the Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association, 2013. The book was also the runner up for the Philip Schaff Prize, American Society for Church History, 2013. Dr. Peterson teaches African history at the University of Michigan.
He is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.